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Monday, July 09, 2007

Court: No pay for changing clothes

Court: No pay for changing clothes
Should workers be paid for the time it takes to change in and out of their work clothes? Not if they belong to a union or it's normal preparation for doing their job, a three-judge panel of the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta says. Their recent decision stemmed from a 7-year-old dispute initially involving a dozen workers at six poultry facilities in Georgia and Alabama owned either by Atlanta-based Cagle's Inc. or an affiliate. The employees said they should be paid for the time it took to put on and take off their smocks, hair or beard nets, gloves, earplugs and other protective wear. The practice is known as "donning and doffing time."

 



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